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Reno's Decision: More Of Your Reactions

The e-mail keeps rolling in about Attorney General Janet Reno's refusal to seek appointment of an independent prosecutor to probe Democratic campaign fund-raising.

Here's a sample of the latest. If you want to weigh in on an issue of the day, send us e-mail at editor@AllPolitics.com And remember to include your name and hometown.

'Ill-bred Congressional Opportunists'

I believe that she has made the right decision for this time. It may look
illegal, but currently there is no proof of anything illegal. Also I am
so sick of these investigations. Having lived in La Jolla, Calif., in my youth
I am not surprised at any of this. I remember Nixon's actions long before
the White House. We still have problems after all the Nixon stuff and new
laws passed then. The FBI has been dirty since the old Hoover days; we also
knew about him as a children. Donate the money from investigations to
reduce the deficit.

What ever do these people want? What if everyone that is currently being
attacked resigned and told the politicians, it's all yours. Ms. Reno, I am
sure, is not dependent on any of her critics for definition. I am also sure
that she has money for her old age. She has more class than most of the
ill-bred congressional opportunists who are so busy attacking her reports.
They only show that they can not read the documents that govern her
reports.

-- Anna Scull Smith, Hudson, Fla., April 15

'Protect Her Boss'

The IRS will destroy your life at the slightest hint of cheating on the
part of a taxpayer, but Janet Reno will go through any contortion
necessary to protect her boss. So much has been made public about this
scandal that it is impossible to keep track of it all. It is hard to
believe that a law hasn't been broken when you consider all that is
known: the Lincoln Bedroom, Maggie Williams, Trie, Huang, Hubbell, Erskine Bowles' papers, Clinton's own handwriting requesting money for perks, Al Gore's phone calls on DNC credit cards, Air Force One, Lippo, Chinese attempts to influence the election in the DNC's favor, etc. etc. etc.

Reno obviously got the message from Clinton when shortly after being
re-elected to a second term, he purposely allowed Reno's job status to
twist in the wind for many weeks. She knows that she upset Clinton by
being too independent during his first term. Her continuation as
attorney general is obviously a result of her relinquishing this
inconvenient character trait. Congress should ask her, under oath, if
she promised to ease off on the independent counsels so that she could
keep her plum job as head of the Justice Department.

Certainly, the careers of prosecutors at the Justice Department depend
upon the attorney general's happiness or unhappiness with them. Make
her unhappy, and they can be put on a dead-end case and their career
side-tracked. She should stop relying on the crutch that Justice
prosecutors are working on the case. They will do what they are told by
Reno. After all, she is their boss.

An independent counsel must be appointed to make this scandal public and
reduce the secrecy surrounding the administration, the Justice
Department and the FBI. Otherwise, the truth will not be known.

Thank you.

-- Dennis Sheerin, April 16

'Endless Republican Witch Hunts'

I thoroughly agree with Janet Reno's decision not to appoint a special
prosecutor. I'm tired of these endless Republican witch hunts. We've
already wasted too much taxpayer money on special prosecutors who serve
no other purpose than to help Republicans to keep the White House tied up and unable to do its job.

If the Republicans want to do a genuine service for the American people,
let them start explaining why, under their watch, big corporate
lobbyists and contributors have been allowed to be directly involved in
writing self-serving laws that undermine the public interest, such as
the attempts to water down environmental protection. These things affect
us more profoundly than who slept in the Lincoln room.

Maybe in the next election the American voters will wake up and kick
these wacko Republicans out of Congress.

-- D. Trunk, April 16

'Doing Her Job'

If anyone would take the time to fully read Ms. Reno's reply letter to
the congressional members seeking an independent counsel in this matter,
they would know why she has refused to do so. She explains in detail
her reasons. Janet Reno definitely seems to be doing her job; I wish
the same could be said for Congress. Now it is time for those
congressional members to stop wasting time they owe us, the American
people, and get back to doing the work they were elected to do. Enough
is enough!

-- Bob Romig-Fox, Ann Arbor, Mich., April 16

'Obvious Evidence'

What we have here is (yet) another attempt to protect the Clinton
Administration. Lessons should have been learned from Whitewater.
An independent counsel is the only way to investigate this latest
fiasco. There is obvious evidence of law-breaking involved in the
DNC fund-raising. As long as Reno continues with her pathetic
decisions, Teflon Bill will able to once again laugh into the face
of the American public. Reno should be relieved of her position.

-- Kenneth C. Homer, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 16

'Mere Political Drum-Beating'

Since her nomination to head the Justice Department, I have always had
great admiration in Janet Reno ... We have a Justice Department and the FBI to
investigate crimes against the nation. They do their job vigorously.
We appoint an attorney general to head up that activity. We should not
take away their responsibility and function for mere political drum-beating. So much of what we hear from the critics of Ms. Reno's
decision to not invoke the independent counsel statute at this time
sounds as though they forget that we have the Justice Department and
FBI, and they seem to assume that the department and FBI are dogs on a
leash following the evil whims of "the White House," rather than the
skilled, diligent professionals they really are ...

I am particularly appalled that Ms. Reno's critics claim the alleged
campaign finance improprieties constitute a threat to our national
security because there is a possibility that a foreign nation may have
wished to influence our politics. Her critics seem to fear that somehow
China managed to get their man elected to some office, and that he or
she will secretly and deliberately undermine our national good for the
benefit of our enemy. Wake up out there. Most nations try to influence
our politics. They work hard to get the American people, Congress
persons and members of the Administration to listen to their views, just
to listen, in hopes that our good will toward their nation continues.
It is that very willingness to listen to the views of other nations that
works toward what peace and prosperity there is in much of the world.

-- Rollie Barcume, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 16

'Simply Not Warranted, Period'

I sincerely hope that you do not take too deeply to heart the seemingly
overwhelming voices against Janet Reno's decision not to appoint a
special prosecutor since demographics show most Web cruisers are
conservative Republicans anyway.

The fact of the matter, politics aside, is that a prosecutor is simply
not warranted, period. Sure, the ugly face of what really goes on has
seen a little light of day. But, if fund-raising is going to be
investigated, then let's investigate EVERYBODY'S fund-raising including
Republicans. Republicans are fighting ferociously to keep their
financing from being investigated because they know they are the kings
of soft money. Witness the 401.c.3 organizations that are formed solely
for the purpose of doing "research" into conservative causes and
philosophy and that pump mega-millions into Republican coffers. Every
radical right organization from the Christian Coalition to GOPAC raises
soft money while giving their members a tax break.

Democrats are actually too dumb, stupid, disorganized or naive to
orchestrate the well-greased money raising machines that can approach
what the GOP raises.

So, if any campaign finances are being investigated, then let's look at
ALL campaign financing or forget the whole thing. Republicans who throw
a fit because Janet Reno didn't appoint a prosecutor to investigate
Democrat campaign financing loose credibility in direct proportion to
the amount of whining they do when they vote House committee chairs sole
subpoena power for the entire committee to investigate the Democrats but
block the investigation of Republicans.